Mstyslav Chernov Instagram – As the Russian offensive continues, Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers evacuate immobile patients from the hospitals of the Donetsk region.
They transport them from the hospital to a Doctors Without Borders medical train that evacuates patients to safer regions of Ukraine.
One of the evacuees is Svitlana Truba, from Slovyansk.
«I don’t want to leave. I don’t want to leave Slovyansk. My heart is breaking. I’m leaving it behind. God, please help Slovyansk, God please help Ukraine, help all of us,» she said.
«It’s very important to evacuate people from this region. The fighting still continues, and it’s wintertime. It’s dangerous and cold. The heating networks are getting destroyed,» Oleksandr Lavreniuk, chief of the Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers a quick response team said.
Ukraine’s presidential office said Tuesday that Russian shelling killed at least three civilians and wounded another eight over the previous 24 hours as fighting continued in the south and east.
Russian forces shelled 17 towns and villages in the Donetsk region, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
Ukraine officials also reported intense shelling and air strikes in Luhansk province, while in the south Russian forces shelled the city of Kherson 13 times over 24 hours, destroying a railway and residential buildings.
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